Art Abandoned

Day 2: your favorite movie, mine is “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”

I have NO idea why I love this movie – maybe it’s because it’s before it’s time, maybe it’s because the acting is fabulous. Maybe it’s the amazing house. Hmmm, Sidney Poitier? All of the above and more. Here are just a few of my favorite scenes:

One of my favorite scenes:

The best [...]

What is perfect? And a new reason to post to my blog every day.

The reason to post? Well, at least for a month! A real life bloggy friend of mine Suzanne (aka Crunchy Green Lovin Mom) – posted on Facebook that she was going to do a 30 days meme…some I’ve seen seem sorta intrusive and since some of my readers come here for stitching, my darling family [...]

“In the Artists Studio” with Susan Sorrell the “Creative Chick”

As you may have noticed the “In the Artists Studio” series took a HUGE break over the summer. Responses have been slow coming in and this sat in my email box throughout our move and I only “found” it recently.

Anyway, Susan Sorrell is a fabulous artist and I consider her a great friend [...]

I get to do a crafty guest post! Yay

A few months ago, my friend Melissa Taylor invited me to do a guest artist post on her Award Winning blog “Imagination Soup”! Well, I pondered and worried and finally came up with my favorite summer activities for kids!

If you pop over and read it you can even get two pdf downloads of some [...]

Rain, literature and cats, a very Perfect Moment Monday

It’s been a week since posted! Yikes! Well, really a week and a day because I’m late with this. It’s been insane around here, getting caught up with work (which has gotten really busy), showing the house (which isn’t busy enough) and just all around stressing about a multitude of things.

However, last Wednesday evening, [...]

Happy 4th (a day late – but seriously worth it)

I’m SO sorry I found this on Geekdad today instead of yesterday – hope everyone enjoyed the fireworks!

Life…where do you send a complaint?

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Pearls before Swine

My little redesign and Copyright issues in Embroidery world

This has been a busy busy weekend – we have put together a plan for the summer to keep the kids occupied AND juggle work. Yeah, wish us luck, no idea if it’s going towork, but the plan makes me feel good! I got the house cleaned, the front yard mowed, and a TON of [...]

Crafty roundup!

I’ve had a few links I’ve wanted to post for a while, so bear with me – this may not read like a normal thread (a little scatter brained). First, for beginniners or even advanced who want a handy guild, be sure to download this fantastic little guide from Sew mama Sew!

And then [...]

A fabulous beady giveaway I hope no one else wants – hee hee

So, one of my bead journal project friends is Lisa Criswell – at Indigo’s Beads (we also share a birthday although I have a FEW years on her – ha ha) and she’s giving away a really really pretty pin on her blog which I’m hoping I’ll win (full disclosure, I get another chance by [...]